Truffles

Today in cooking we made truffles we had to cream some butter with icing sugar and then add some crushed up biscuits then mix them together then we put them in the fridge for 10 minutes, they were good.

The balance system

Today I have to do a blog about the balance system we have to answer 3 questions about it.

1. There is liquid in a part of your ear when you are off-balance the liquid touches the hairs in your ear it signals to your brain to tell you your off-balance 

2. Some techniques you can do to help you with your balance you can stand on 1 leg with your eyes closed, stand on one leg, stand on 1 leg while turning your head side to side.

3. You fell dizzy after spinning because the liquid in your ear is still moving  so your brain still thinks you are moving

ww1

 Today I have to do a blog about the work I have done on this subject we had to write out a paragraph about it I learned that in world war 1 there was something called shrapnel it was a bomb that when exploded it pushed out a bunch of fragments that went into people eyes, head and their legs. Also that it was easier to get alcohol than water and most of the soldiers had alcohol instead of water because the alcohol didn’t have to be clean to drink it. We also looked at the trenches back then.

I think I have been focusing and getting my work done, I learned about the dreadnoughts, learning about ww1 good  to get the work done

cooking

 Today in cooking we made this chocolate thing the first thing we had to do was get the ingredients were flour, cocoa powder, sugar, milk, butter we had to mix all of these into a small bowl then we poured it into mugs then we poured some hot water into it after that we microwaved it for 1 minute 30 then we ate it. It was good. here is the recipe. 

3 T Flour

3 T Sugar

1½ T Cocoa Powder

½ t  Baking Powder

3 T Milk

2½ T Butter melted

¼ t Vanilla

Topping

1½ T Brown Sugar

1 t Cocoa Powder         

3 T Hot Water  

Method

1. In a small bowl add flour, sugar cocoa powder and baking powder. Stir together

2. Add to this the milk, butter and vanilla. Mix until fully combined

3. Pour half into each of the 2 ramekins or microwave proof mugs. (leave room to rise!)

4. Sprinkle topping evenly over the surface 

5. Carefully pour over the hot water. Make sure it is evenly spread

6. Cook in the microwave for 1½ min. Remove carefully once cooked

7. Serve with ice cream, custard or a dessert sauce

Human rights

 Today I have to do a blog about the work that I am doing in social studies we have to rank the questions and we had to do a worksheet about Iqbal's story and research some words and write down the meaning of the word. 

This is my paragraph on war crimes

War crimes are a horrendous attack on human rights some examples of war crimes are murder, massacres, dehumanization, genocide, ethnic cleansing,  use of weapons of mass destruction, kidnappings and forced disappearances and there are many more war crimes.

work link 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J6J-4lVOKYSKHISglHm0P35Wnd_qNshX_9VMfieF8Ds/edit#slide=id.g35f391192_00

Electrical house project

 Today I have to do a blog about this house project that we did in science and maths we had to choose a house draw it out and put some light bulbs in the drawing and calculate the voltage of each bulb. We also had to find the area and perimeter the area was 113.14 and 41 for perimeter my house had 10 light bulbs 

Aim to make a house 

Method: I choose the second house it has 10 bulbs and 4 rooms 

Discussion:  Voltage is the pressure from an electrical circuit's power source that pushes charged electrons. Current is the rate at which electrons flow past a point in a complete electrical circuit.  Resistance is a measure of the opposition to current flow in an electrical circuit.

Cooking

 Today in cooking we made some rice paper parcels the first thing we had to do was get the ingredients were lettuce, carrot, celery, onion, capsicum and some noodle thingy then we had to cut up all of the ingredients. After that, we got the rice paper and we wet it and had to wait until the design on the paper went away and then we put all of the ingredients in it then we ate it.

Static and current electricity.

 Today I have to do a blog about work I have been doing in science. We are learning about static electricity and current electricity the first thing we had to do was watch a video explaining what the things mean and explaining how to use them then we had to answer some questions about the work we had done 

Banana and Chocolate chip muffins

 Today I have to do a blog about the cooking at the home task we had to choose a recipe and then you had to make it at home.  This is the recipe out of the Edmonds Cook Book.

Banana Muffins

50g butter softened

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

3/4 cup wholemeal flour

3/4 cup plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

pinch salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

3/4 cup milk

Cream butter and sugar in a bowl.  Beat in egg. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Dissolve soda in the milk. Add sifted ingredients alternately with soda to the creamed mixture, mixing just to combine. Spoon mixture into greased muffin tins. Bake at 200C for 12 to 15 minutes. Add mashed banana after sifted ingredients. 

I didn't use wholemeal flour so I just put in extra self-raising flour.  Because I used self-raising flour I didn't need to use baking powder.  I also added some grated chocolate to the mixture.  

The muffins when cooked were soft and tasted good.  The whole family enjoyed them. 

Discovery Task

Today in health we have to make a blog about work that we have been doing in health we had to pick a topic, choose six questions and answer them my topic was about brain development during teenage after we did that we needed to choose three strategies about how you can help your brain develop after that I made a poster. Here is the work I did https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vzQsZF1YVSjojaGCumPU9uJvk_5Qkw0xAojHGVj4lNs/edit

Pita pockets

 Today we have to do a blog about the food we made in cooking we made Pita pockets we had chopped vegetables in them and some ham in there the people that were in my group were Hunter me and two other girls. I think that my group didn't really work well when we made the food because we didn't communicate well. I didn't make the food because I wasn't hungry 

Ingredients:

• 1 pita casing per person

• Lettuce

• Cheese

• Tomato

• Grated carrot

• ¼ onions

• 1t oil

• Sauces – tomato, bbq, mayo, hummus, chilli

• 1 slice of ham

Method:

1. Sauté the onions together in a pan with oil, high-med heat

2. Chop and grate the vegetables you require

3. Place pita pockets in the microwave for 20 seconds

4. Cut open the pita pocket along the crease

5. Stuff pita pockets with required filings

New Zealand places

 Today I have to blog about the work we did in wananga we had to name places in NZ and write down one fact about the place did you know the pacific ocean is the largest and deepest ocean this is the work that I did.

My Home Economics Work

 Today I have to make a blog about the work I have been doing in Home Economics. We had to create a product that we wanted to make for someone. We had to think of a person that we wanted to make the food for my stakeholder was Mr Reizinger, we also had to make a shopping list of all the ingredients that we needed. Then we had to make a time management plan we had to list how long it will take us to do each thing, we also had to put the costings in of how much money it will cost for each thing. We found the costings for the ingredients on the Countdown website.

This is the feedback on the food that I made for my stakeholder. It had a great fluffy consistency and was not dry. There was a good amount of cheese flavour. My one recommendation would be to add either some bacon bits or sweet chilli for extra flavour. I think that my group did well when we made the product because we worked together very well with my partner. Here is the original recipe Original Recipe

   

Ingredients

  1 C flour
3 tsp baking powder
2 C cheese (grated) (200g not grated)
1 egg beaten

½ C milk

Method

1. preheat  oven to 200°c
2. Beat the egg with a fork 

2. Mix the baking powder, grated cheese and egg (Beaten), and the milk into a big bowl

3. Place spoonfuls into greased patty tins.
4. Bake for 12-15 minutes.

Imploding Can

 Aim:  Today I have to do a blog about the experiment that we did in science what we looked for was what would happen when you put a hot can in cold water 

Equipment: the equipment that I used was a bunsen burner, a can, water, gas, scissor tongs.

Method: the first thing that we had to get all of the things we had to get the bunsen burner out and connect it to the gas then lite it and put some water in. We held the can over the flame and it started to boil we then put it in the water. what happened was the can got very hot then it started to boil and steam came out and we put the can upside down and the can shrink.

Conclusion:  The can shrink because the can was full of steam and then it touched the cold water and the steam inside the can and the steam condesed

Experiment

 Today in science we have to do a blog about the experiment that we did the things that we used in the experiment was a candle, water, a cup and a dish we had to get a dish and put the candle in it put some water in the dish as well then light the candle then put the cup over the candle and the candle will go out and the pressure will make the cup stick to the dish and all of the water went inside of the cup the candle went out because it was trying to get air.

Drawing Blog

 Today I have to do a blog about this drawing challenge that we did last week the interpersonal skills that I used were verbal communication because we had to describe the picture and active listening because the person had to listen to the instructions 

The interpersonal skills were helpful because we had to listen to our partner and because we had to listen to the other people’s instructions. The person I worked with was hunter f we worked well together when he was listening to my instructions.

If I did it again I would try to get to do a better job at drawing the hellions level that I was working at was level three.

Marsh mellow tower

 Today in health we were doing a challenge we had to build a tower out of marsh mellows and the tallest one wins we had to use 12 marsh mellows 8 skewers and 1 cup my team was wiremu and Reid.

The interpersonal skills that I used today were verbal communication and active listening using the interpersonal skill were helpful to use because we had to talk with and team and listen to them I worked with  Wiremu and Reid we worked well when we were building the tower if I were to do it again I would try to build the tower a bit taller the level that I was working at was level three. here is a photo of our tower.

Resilence

Today in wananga we had to do some activities about resilience there were eight options to choose from the one that  I did was you had to watch a video and explain the troubles that they had when they were going to get the job they wanted. My video was about how Aaron Cruden wanted to be an all-black but he got cancer and he had to stop for a bit here is my work.

Aaron Cruden was trying to get into all blacks but he couldn’t get in and later that year he also got cancer and he could play the rest of his season  but he kept on trying and he got to play in all blacks like he wanted to he also never gave up

Dilution and filtration

 last week in science we mixed copper Nitrate with sodium Hydroxide to make a bright blue precipitate the first test-tube had the most copper nitrate when we added water to it started diluting it means the Copper Nitrate gets weaker there were more chemicals in the first test tube so it made a better reaction and more precipitate it is where a solid turns into a liquid. Filtering is when you can separate the solid from the liquid 

Chinese new year

  For the past few days, we have had to do some work on the Chinese new year we had to add stuff like what their traditions are what food they eat and one of there myths on Chinese new year what the Animals are and how does the cycle work and what Animal we are and the traits that the Animal has.

Here is the slide for my work.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mOmsCxb8wkz3cr7y2QBtMn0y1Jv8Q2sLlFnz5pub5SE/edit#slide=id.gc08005c7b3_1_514